Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week three labor measures were formally announced. One, a revision of the Case bill vetoed by the President * Bob, Mother, Helen, Father, Charles. last year, would set up a mediation board, make 60-day "cooling-off" periods mandatory, outlaw secondary boycotts and jurisdictional strikes...
Labor was the hottest issue, and Harry Truman handled it with gloves. He asked for legislation to outlaw jurisdictional strikes and their secondary boycotts. Since even most labor leaders want the same thing, that was like coming out against sin. He wanted better federal mediation machinery to stop strikes, and increased social legislation to "alleviate the causes of workers' insecurity...
Labor legislation was next. To the long list of things to do (e.g., revise the Wagner Act, possibly outlaw the closed shop) party leaders added legislation to head off the economic blitz recently launched by labor lawyers with the portal-to-portal pay drive (see BUSINESS). In the first 48 hours probably a hundred labor bills will be dumped into the hopper...
...answer so far has been Government seizure"); the need to protect individuals and minorities within a union (who are now the victims of "monopolies as vicious as any attempted by the unlamented trusts of a few decades ago"). One way to afford that protection says Joe Ball, is to "outlaw the closed shop...
...ordinary conscience of humanity ventured to deny that right. For the loser in a war, punishment was certain. But this was not a matter of law; it was simply a matter of course." In the wake of World War I, however, he continued, repeated efforts were made to outlaw war, "reaching their climax in the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, in which 63 nations, including Germany, renounced aggressive warfare. During that period the whole world was one, [ but ] we lacked the courage to enforce the authoritative decision. . . . We did not reach the second half of the question: What will...